This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Brucey and continuing coverage of the case against Rex Hewerman.

We're about to get into and what you're about to witness is one of the most psychologically complex and disturbing pieces of footage to emerge from any true crime documentary in recent memory.

I got to sit down with psychotherapist Chavon Scott to analyze clips from the Peacock documentary,

The Gilgo Beach Killer House of Secrets.

That sounds a little too happy now, didn't it?

And I got to warn you, what we've discovered about Asa Elripp, Rex Heerman's wife,

might challenge your understanding of denial, trauma bonding,

and how predators select their partners.

Before we dive in, let me set the stage with some contexts that we don't cover in the conversation with Chavon.

This documentary was filmed months after Rex Huraman's arrest in July of 2023, at a time when the evidence against him was already overwhelming.

We're talking about DNA evidence, linking him to six of the seven victims, a murder planning

document created in 2000. That's HK 2002-04, containing detailed instructions for killing and body

disposal, trophy newspaper clipping spanning three decades, cell phone tower records showing their

burner phone activity,

correlating with victims' disappearances.

And here's what makes this even more extraordinary by the time Asa Alrip agreed to participate in this documentary,

reportedly for a million dollars.

Prosecutors had already revealed that every single murder Rex is charged with occurred when she and the children were out of town.

I mean, think about that. She's the one who took these trips to Iceland.

She's the one who left him alone in that house over and over again over 30 years.

Now, most of us would look at that pattern and kind of feel sick.

We'd question every trip, every absence, every time he encouraged us to visit family.

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